[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] The Windows Azure June CTP has only been released a few days ago , and we already have great samples built by our customers that show how to use the CTP capabilities. Alan Smith has created two webcasts on CloudCasts that show how easy it is to...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] We are combining all Windows Azure platform related content into one place: the Windows Azure Platform Team Blog at www.WindowsAzureBlog.com . This will be the new destination for all product releases, resources, tools and news around the Windows...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] In the Windows Azure AppFabric May 2011 CTP, we released enhancements to Service Bus including the new message-oriented middleware features around Queues and Topics. More details regarding these features can be found here: Introducing the Windows...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] Today we are excited to announce the release of the Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP which includes capabilities that make it easy for developers to build, deploy, manage and monitor multi-tier applications across web, business logic and database...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] Posted by Karandeep Anand Last October, at the PDC 2010 keynote, we shared our vision of building, running, and managing applications reliably and at scale in Windows Azure. Since then, the team has been heads-down to make the vision a reality...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] An update to the Windows Azure AppFabric SDK is available for download. The updated SDK introduces fixes to a few bugs related to the Caching service. You can find more details on the bugs it addresses here . If you are not experiencing any of...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] Cross Post from Ron Jacobs blog This morning I saw a message post on the .NET 4 Windows Workflow Foundation Forum titled Load XAMLX from database .  I’ve been asked this question many times. How can I store my Workflow Service definitions (xamlx...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] Today, we are pleased to further simplify the WS-* interop challenge by providing the WCF Express Interop Bindings Extension for Visual Studio 2010, launched at wcf.codeplex.com. This new extension enables WCF developers to avoid much of the formerly...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] Today (6/10/2010) the Windows Azure AppFabric has updated the IP ranges on which the AppFabric nodes are hosted. If your firewall restricts outbound traffic, you will need to perform the additional step of opening your outbound TCP ports and IP addresses...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] To make an activity's display name readonly, it isn't enough to use the ReadOnlyAttribute on the DisplayName. In order to do this, create a custom PropertyValueEditor that displays a string in a text block, then declare an editor attribute on the...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] Today, the Service Bus team is happy to announce a couple of initiatives to make it even easier to get started learning and using the Service Bus: the AppFabric Service Bus NuGet Package and the Service Bus Samples CodePlex Site . Both our Samples...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] In the May CTP of Service Bus, we’ve added a brand-new set of cloud-based, message-oriented-middleware technologies including reliable message queuing and durable publish/subscribe messaging. Last week I posted the Introduction to Service Bus...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] Last week at the TechEd North America conference we made some exciting announcements regarding the Windows Azure AppFabric May CTP and the upcoming June CTP . Following are several resource that can help you learn more about these announcements...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] As a fraud prevention measure, we have recently implemented a verification process for newly purchased Windows Azure platform accounts. When a new customer first logs on to the Windows Azure platform developer portal, the customer must provide us...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] We just released two additional videos and the accompanying code samples to our Windows Azure AppFabric Learning Series available on CodePlex. The new videos and code samples are: Name Link to Sample Code Link to Video ...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] The new Service Bus Durable Messaging features introduced with the May 2011 CTP are really cool, and what's even better than a slew of new messaging features added to the AppFabric is the fact that many of them are accessible from clients on any...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] As announced at TechEd North America we have released PowerShell cmdlets which wrap the management API of Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control service. Read about this in the blog post by Vittorio Bertocci . This is a very useful addition...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] In the new May CTP of Service Bus, we’re adding a brand-new set of cloud-based, message-oriented-middleware technologies including reliable message queuing and durable publish/subscribe messaging...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] As promised, we have released new videos as part of our Windows Azure AppFabric Learning Series available on CodePlex. The new videos cover the new capabilities that enable advanced pub/sub messaging in Service Bus which have been released as CTP...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . The operation invoker is the last element in the WCF runtime which is invoked before the user code (service...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] Today at the TechEd conference we announced that we have released enhancements to Service Bus as part of the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP May release, and the upcoming release of the AppFabric Developer Tools and Application Manager as part of the...

[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.] A lot of partners and customers we talk to are telling us that they think of Service Bus as one of the key differentiators of the Windows Azure platform because it enables customers to build and interconnect applications that reflect the reality of...